From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:41:42 GMT
Subject: Re: receive.denyCurrentBranch
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902090038550.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <76718490902081451xd953e84y33de64cc82c1da42@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Jay Soffian wrote:

> If you had paid attention, you would have noticed that Mercurial did not 
> attempt to merge. Rather, it created a new branch head in the remote 
> repository.

So this is the "detached HEAD" idea.  Which contradicts the law of the 
least surprise.

> Clearly users are confused about pushing into a checked-out branch. 
> Maybe making that impossible by default will be enough.

It should be clear that the equivalent of a central repository is a bare 
repository.  And hopefully Junio's strategy will make that clearer, so I 
think this is the superior approach.

Ciao,
Dscho